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| Title: | Sarcosine attenuates toluene-induced motor incoordination, memory impairment, and hypothermia but not brain stimulation reward enhancement in mice |
| Authors: | 詹銘煥
Chan, Ming-Huan;Chung, Shiang-Sheng;Stoker, Astrid K.;Markou, Athina;Chen, Hwei-Hsien |
| Contributors: | 神科所 |
| Keywords: | Toluene;Motor coordination;Recognition memory;Body temperature;Intracranial self-stimulation |
| Date: | 2012.12 |
| Issue Date: | 2014-05-06 16:41:25 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | Toluene, a widely used and commonly abused organic solvent, produces various behavioral disturbances, including motor incoordination and cognitive impairment. Toluene alters the function of a large number of receptors and ion channels. Blockade of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors has been suggested to play a critical role in toluene-induced behavioral manifestations. The present study determined the effects of various toluene doses on motor coordination, recognition memory, body temperature, and intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) thresholds in mice. Additionally, the effects of sarcosine on the behavioral and physiological effects induced by toluene were evaluated. Sarcosine may reverse toluene-induced behavioral manifestations by acting as an NMDA receptor co-agonist and by inhibiting the effects of the type I glycine transporter (GlyT1). Mice were treated with toluene alone or combined with sarcosine pretreatment and assessed for rotarod performance, object recognition memory, rectal temperature, and ICSS thresholds. Toluene dose-dependently induced motor incoordination, recognition memory impairment, and hypothermia and lowered ICSS thresholds. Sarcosine pretreatment reversed toluene-induced changes in rotarod performance, novel object recognition, and rectal temperature but not ICSS thresholds. These findings suggest that the sarcosine-induced potentiation of NMDA receptors may reverse motor incoordination, memory impairment, and hypothermia but not the enhancement of brain stimulation reward function associated with toluene exposure. Sarcosine may be a promising compound to prevent acute toluene intoxications by occupational or intentional exposure. |
| Relation: | Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 265(2), 158-165 |
| Data Type: | article |
| Appears in Collections: | [神經科學研究所] 期刊論文
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